Start-ups and big tech alike are speaking out against the FCC's draft net neutrality proposal; activists start an "Occupy FCC" protest outside its DC HQ and promise to spread it; a House bill to end some dragnet surveillance advances; and much, much more. Read More

Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: The latest explanations for HealthCare.gov's troubled start; why journalists need to reverse engineer algorithms; how fact-checking sites may be improving the behavior of politicians; and much, much more. Read More

TechCrunch recently published a list titled “The 20 Most Innovative People in Democracy 2012.” The people named on the list are very good, and truly are at the forefront of changing the landscape of governance, media, and technology, primarily in the U.S. But as a list, it’s only good if author Gregory Ferenstein had titled it “The 20 Most Innovative Men in Democracy 2012.” Read More

In this editorial, PDM publisher Andrew Rasiej talks about the problem of gender discrimination in the digital industry. Citing his own inclusion in The Daily Beast/Newsweek's Digital Power Index--which only named nine women out of one hundred digerati--he calls on his peers to address the issue head on. Read More